The Alano name, however, has historically been used for a number of dog breeds in a few European countries thought to descend from the original dog of the Alans, such as the German mastiff ( Great Dane ) and the French Dogue de Bordeaux, among others.

A later folk story has it that a giant Norse axeman ( possibly armed with a Dane Axe ) blocked the narrow crossing, and single-handedly held up the entire Saxon army.

He then finds Dane who is about to depart in a chopper hovering over the train, unaware that Zachs has killed a female terrorist and is forcing the pilot to wait for Sarah and Ryback at gunpoint.

Dane, who survived the gunshot and the crash, has also caught the ladder and attempts to climb onto the helicopter while screaming that he and Ryback should join forces.

Saxo's skill as a Latinist has been praised by Erasmus, who wondered at how " a Dane of that age got so great power of eloquence.

Roxbury has been called " Dane County ’ s most historic township ".

For much of the history of the area, Stoughton has been the second-largest and economically important city in Dane County after Madison.

In the past, SPB has brought such acts as Wiz Khalifa, Jurassic 5, Citizen Cope, Blackalicious, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, OK Go, Dane Cook, Talib Kweli, Matisyahu, State Radio, Lupe Fiasco, Blue Scholars, Guster, Common, Mates of State, CAKE, Bob Marley ( comedian ) and Naughty By Nature.

She has recently exhibited at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam ; The Eastshire Museums in Scotland, Kilmarnock ; Camden Arts Centre, London ; Sculpture Center, New York ; Thomas Dane Gallery, London ; La Casa Encendida, Madrid ; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ; and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

Willett has worked with comedians such as Louie Anderson, Kyle Cease, Dane Cook, and Kevin Nealon.

Since then, the minority has slowly been gaining size and is still growing as it has become fashionable to be a Dane in Germany ( albeit in Central and Southern Germany ), and these days numbers around 50, 000, although only a number of between 8, 000 and 10, 000 of them speak Danish in everyday life.

In fact, the lifetime risk for a Great Dane to develop bloat has been estimated to be close to 37 percent.

While wandering with Tom, Dane has a partially remembered alien abduction experience and is transported into a different dimension.

In recent years, Albion has hosted 3 Doors Down, Dane Cook, O. A. R., and Sean Kingston.

He is married to the former Beverly Ann Whitnel, and has two daughters and four sons ; Susan Nancy, Stephanie Brand Lowery, Patrick Richard, Kevin Stephen, Erik Ryan, and Dane Vance.

Hubble, who is really named Canid 3942, has been sent by the powerful Greater Dane ( voice of Vanessa Redgrave ) on a mission from the Dog Star Sirius 7 to make sure dogs have fulfilled this destiny.

* 29 Le Great Dane Robbery 7 / 7 / 68 ( GC )-A code cipher has been stolen from a French intelligence unit and hidden in the Soviet Embassy.

The Great Dane has sometimes been called the worlds biggest lap dog.

Comedian Ron White has criticized Dane Cook for his lack of real material and for his inflated ego ; saying " does not make me laugh, at all, in any way, shape or form.

He also has the aid of " Elmo the Wonder Dog ," a Great Dane who serves as his occasional steed and rescuer, and the " Dollplane ," which was deceptively presented as a model airplane in his study when not in use.

The McGarrigle sisters ' life has been chronicled in Dane Lanken's Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Songs and Stories ( 2007 ).

As well has his step-son Courtney Dane.

When she was in her late 70s, Philip Elwood, jazz critic of the San Francisco Examiner, said of her: " Dane is back and beautiful ... she has an immense voice, remarkably well-tuned ... capable of exquisite presentations regardless of the material.

A group of terrorists led by computer genius Travis Dane and mercenary leader Penn hijack the train, cutting its phone lines and taking the passengers as well as the staff hostage, herding them into the last two train cars.

Ryback kills the mercenaries one by one, but Dane uses his computer skills to find the Stealths and retarget Grazer One to knock them out before they complete their mission.

Great Dane puppies grow very large, very fast, which puts them at risk of joint and bone problems.

In general terms, the Germans of Holstein and Schleswig supported the House of Augustenburg, a cadet branch of the Danish royal family, but the average Dane considered them too German and preferred the rival Glücksburg branch with Prince Christian of Glücksburg as the new sovereign.

The Greater Dane allows the Earth dogs to return to Earth and declares them a separate breed.

Nine Scandinavians won events on either the European or PGA Tour in 2009 ; four of them — Dane Jeppe Huldahl and Swedes Oskar Henningsson, Christian Nilsson, and Alexander Norén — were first-time European Tour winners.

In the ensuing years a long sequence of architects profited from his discourse: Boullée, Brongniart, Chalgrin, La Guêpière, Desprez, de Wailly, Gondoin, Ledoux, Guimard and Rondelet, and to foreigners who would bring Neoclassicism home with them: the Anglo-Swedish Sir William Chambers, and the Dane Caspar Frederik Harsdorff.

It became a favorite haunt of theirs and brought them into contact with Hoyt Axton, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, Reverend Gary Davis, and Barbara Dane.

Following good displays and a goal scored in two UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup matches against Chelsea, he joined them in November 1998 for a fee of £ 330, 000, in a deal that sent fellow Dane Brian Laudrup from Chelsea to Copenhagen.

In 2001, Washington Post writer Patricia Dane Rogers wrote, “ Like so many other mundane household objects, these old standbys are going high-style and high-tech .” Newer companies such as Minka, Fanimation, The Modern Fan Co., The Period Arts Fan Co. and Monte Carlo brought well-built fans with distinctive design to the market.

Later, Runt Distribution brought out Barbara Dane and The Chambers Brothers on its DBK Works label.

There are four poems written by Adenes: the Enfances Ogier, an enfeebled version of the Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche ( Ogier the Dane ) written by Raimbert de Paris at the beginning of the century ; Berte aus granspies, the history of the mother of Charlemagne, founded on well-known traditions which are also preserved in the anonymous Chronique de France, and in the Chronique rimee of Philippe Mousket ; Bueves de Comarchis, belonging to the cycle of romance gathered round the history of Aimeri de Narbonne ; and a long roman d ' aventures, Cleomades, borrowed from Spanish and Moorish traditions brought into France by Blanche, daughter of Louis IX, who after the death of her Spanish husband returned to the French court.

Brian Holm Sørensen ( born 2 October 1962 ) is a retired Danish professional rider in road bicycle racing from 1986 to 1998, and rode for Team Telekom from 1993 to 1997, and was part of the team that brought his fellow Dane Bjarne Riis to victory in the 1996 Tour de France.

A scholarship in memory of Novello was established at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in 1952 a bronze bust of him by Clemence Dane was unveiled at Drury Lane.

When Dane informs Ryback that there is no way to stop the satellite from destroying Washington, Ryback shoots him, the bullet destroying his computer and injuring Dane, who falls out of a window of the train.

Nelson's academic interests led him to enroll in Albion Academy in Albion in Dane County, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1858.

He eventually learns that he is Ogier the Dane, sent to our universe to remove him from the conflict between humans and Faerie in that one.

There is an old legend that " Hingwar the Dane " ( i. e. Ivarr the Boneless ) was drowned accidentally while crossing the Kennet here, and that the town was named after him.

Tom shows Dane the magic in the everyday world and helps him realize that his anger prevents him from experiencing real emotions.

Later, the manor of Chich ( now St Osyth ) in Essex was assumed as part of his royal demesne by the Dane King Canute, who granted it to Earl Godwin, and by him it was given to Christ Church, Canterbury.

Many actors paid tribute to him, including Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Elijah Wood, Dane Cook, Dwayne Johnson, Stephen Fry, Peter Fonda, and Keira Knightley, as well as musical collaborators Hybrid.

Owen repairs Hubble's communicator and sends out a message to Hubble about how much he cares for him and the Greater Dane gets it.

When asked about his own loyalty, Hubble tells the Greater Dane to call him Hubble rather than Canid 3942, showing that his loyalty is to Owen.

The secret identity of Doll Man, " The World's Mightiest Mite ," is research chemist Darrell Dane, who invents a formula that enables him to shrink to the height of six inches while retaining the full strength of his normal size.

Cole Cash's natural talent for combat landed him in black ops, taking the dirtiest jobs as part of a squad known as Team 7 ( which also included John " Topkick " Lynch, Marc " Backlash " Slayton, Jackson " Arclight " Dane, Philip " Bulleteer " Chang, Stephen " Wraparound " Callahan, Alex " Slaphammer " Fairchild and Michael " Deathblow " Cray ).

Halfdan (,, Medieval, Proto-Norse: * Halbadaniz, " half Dane ") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding ( Skjöldung ) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.

Creator Iwao Takamoto later explained that before he designed the character, he first spoke to a Great Dane breeder, who described to him the desirable characteristics of a pedigree dog.

" The description of Scolvus as a Dane may indicate the same source as the English mention of him in 1576.

When Mike is buried at sea, Greek-American Tin Can ( Dane Clark ) does not attend the service, which angers the other men until he explains that every Allied death causes him great pain.

She is 35, married to Keith ( previously married and somewhat older at 58 ; she virtually worships him ) and mother to baby Dane ( about whom she obsesses ).

Nothing is known of his fate thereafter, but his son, Uni danski ( Uni the Dane ), emigrated to Iceland and made a feeble attempt to win it for the Norwegian king but be earl over himself and he had consulted this with the king but when the farmers knew his intent they would help him in no way and soon he was killed.

The Victoria ( spring ) and Australian Derby ( autumn ) double eluded him, however, as he was narrowly defeated by Nothin ' Leica Dane in the Victoria Derby.

In her response she is quoted as saying that she " really-really liked it " because the victim had been a " golden-haired Dane, with the Hitler-Jugend look to him.

There he succeeds in rescuing his great-great-grandfather Bishop Dane, who accompanies him on many of his adventures, along with two robots Restin has built.